{"id":77710,"date":"2019-05-17T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=77710"},"modified":"2019-05-17T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T20:26:20","slug":"news-firewind-sign-worldwide-album-deal-with-afm-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-firewind-sign-worldwide-album-deal-with-afm-records\/","title":{"rendered":"FIREWIND Sign Worldwide Deal With AFM Records (May 17th, 2019) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>FIREWIND Sign Worldwide Deal With AFM Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>May 17th, 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/firewind2016promophoto2news.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thessaloniki, Greece-based power metal band Firewind have signed a worldwide album deal with AFM Records, confirming this development on May 17th, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration between the group and AFM already began with latest Firewind album <em>Immortals<\/em>, which the German-based label issued in the North American territory on January 20th, 2017. But now AFM will be responsible for the release of future Firewind albums worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Gus G. commented: \u201cAfter working together with AFM Records on my latest solo album <em>Fearless<\/em> and seeing the great results that were achieved, the passion and care they put into the project, it felt natural to extend our partnership and bring Firewind under the same roof. This is something I\u2019m very excited about and I\u2019m also happy to announce that we\u2019re already working on the follow-up of <em>Immortals<\/em>. We plan to enter the studio after our Summer tour with Queensr\u00ffche wraps up in August. Stay tuned for further announcements!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firewind\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Henning Basse (vocals)<br \/>\nGus G. (guitar)<br \/>\nPetros Christo (bass)<br \/>\nJo Nunez (drums)<br \/>\nBob Katsionis (keyboards)<\/p>\n<p>Eighth studio album <em>Immortals<\/em> was <a href=\"\/site\/news-firewind-release-eighth-studio-album-immortals\/\">released<\/a> in January 2017 through Century Media Records in Europe, and via AFM Records in North America.<\/p>\n<p><em>Promotional photograph by Firenesia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIREWIND Sign Worldwide Deal With AFM Records May 17th, 2019 Thessaloniki, Greece-based power metal band Firewind have signed a worldwide album deal with AFM Records, confirming this development on May 17th, 2019. The collaboration between the group and AFM already began with latest Firewind album Immortals, which the German-based label issued in the North American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2528],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewind-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77712,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77710\/revisions\/77712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}